- From: Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>
- Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:28:18 +0100
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 12:01 +1100, Mark Nottingham wrote: > WRT reason phrases -- although that's what the spec says, I think that > 'human user' is a stretch -- it's really for debugging / logging / > development in common use. Depends on where you draw the line between information and diagnistics/debugging. Quite many command line or CLI tools do display the reason phrase on non-200 responses for information to the user on what is going on. > Whether elements with that use case should > be able to be internationalised is a separate discussion, of course. True. And I don't think there is a need for this, but suspect some people in areas where english isn't seen as a common language may differ. The majority most likely do not care at all however. Regards Henrik
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